The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again.
Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.
Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.
When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.
My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.
It's important to move the theatre into the 21st Century.
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
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